Bathtime!

I watched her play in the tub for a good 45 min tonight I think. Her water got cold and we filled it up again. The bubbles went away. What most kids found out about at age 7 months or so, Anna really discovered tonight: the joys of laying in the tub and mega-splashing. Like big waves at like 2 Hz so that the amplitude was large enough to slosh water out of the tub! Terrific! She's splashed occasionally in the past, but tonight I had to cover myself with a towel :) And then I watched her pretend play something or other in the water. I wondered what she was pretending to do. I couldn't tell. She'd put her hands into a cup full of water, put her hands in her mouth, then rub her hands up and down her legs and feet. No clue on my part!

This evening while at work, Paul and Anna called me. She sang to me over the phone her ABC's and Twinkle Twinkle. And "I yuv you mommy!". I have been waiting for those songs over the phone for 20 months. Ahhh...

So much is going through my mind when I watch her play and sing and talk to us. You can see the neurons making their connections in her little brain. She is fun to watch. I wonder what features of her face will remain constant as she grows and how much will change as she gets older. She's so happy talking to me I can't imagine that she will fight with me on a regular basis when she gets older (even though we have our moments even in toddler-hood). I am fully aware when I watch her that what people swear to me is true: enjoy it all now and let it all sink in now because it goes by fast.

CS said she saw Anna and her class at day care today, playing on the playground. Lots of laughing and screaming and running and playing! One day I've got to take off of work to go see that!

This morning I was on the phone with Disney World, firming up our travel plans for Jan. On hold, Anna's favorite night-night song came on: "I know you" from Sleeping Beauty. Yes, I know that song by heart. Over and over every night. Hearing it on the phone made me think a few things:
-Awww, that's my baby's song!
-Wow, wait, really...not just my baby's song, but other people's babies' song, huh?
-Hmmmm....Disney sure knows what they're doing, don't they? I was NOT A DISNEY FAN before Anna was born. Ask Esther, I hated Disney. They just make movies that revolve around the tragic death of the mother of some poor little deer or lion or cat or dog or whatever. Sad crap. Sleeping Beauty is still the only classic I've seen and I haven't seen the whole thing thanks to a toddler with a limited attention span. But I digress...

The point is that when I heard that song on hold, that means other people's kids love it too, and I came to understand the basis for gazillions of dollars Disney takes in every single day. Yep, I'm about to be one contributor.